Days after former Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh announced that he will launch a political party under the name of Punjab Lok Congress, the Election Commission (EC) has received an application from an association seeking to register itself as a political party under the same name.
"An application for registration of a political party under section 29A of Representation of the People Act, from an association wanting to be registered as a political party under name of Punjab Lok Congress party, has been received in the EC," a source in the EC said without elaborating. The application is under process, the source added.
Earlier this month, Singh had resigned from the Congress, accusing party president Sonia Gandhi, and senior leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra of hatching a ‘midnight conspiracy’ to oust him. On November 2, Singh, in a seven-page scorching letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, resigned from the grand old party. At the same time, he also announced the formation of his new political party 'Punjab Lok Congress'.
Taking on Congress Punjab President Navjot Singh Sidhu, Amarinder Singh called him a person of 'unstable mind' and stated, "you will one day regret this decision and it would be too late by them. I am sure you must be regretting it now.
The 79-year-old leader had timed his bitter resignation letter with the announcement on the name of his new party.